Ideally, an architecture-aware scheduler could capitalize on all available accelerators / heterogenous processors, and could maximize performance for that system.
Unfortunately right now we're limited to porting a subset of blocks to these accelerators. Tommy James Tracy II Ph.D Student High Performance Low Power Lab University of Virginia Phone: 913-775-2241 On Apr 18, 2013, at 9:58 PM, Robert McGwier <rwmcgw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Or possibly more interesting and significant for the future, heterogeneous > processors in a system. We're seeing lots of this with ARM's on FPGA's, GPU > on ARM based SoC, ....... In addition to homogeneous multicore processors > with interesting network fabrics........ > > > > On Thursday, April 18, 2013, Tom Rondeau wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Andrew Back <and...@carrierdetect.com> wrote: > > Hi Sylvain, > > > > On 18 April 2013 08:56, Sylvain Munaut <246...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >>> Hello, I'm starting this thread to discuss ideas about > >>> support for many-core floating-points accelerators. > >>> As it was said in wiki it could be for example: > >>> -further development of Performance Counters > >>> and Block Core Affinity > >> > >> Shouldn't we work on actually _running_ any of the blocks on the > >> accelerator before trying to benchmark them ? > > > > Of course, but the suggestion was that a GSoC project involving > > Parallella should do more than just port blocks — this could be part > > of the project but not all. I believe Tommy Tracy II has started > > working on porting, but I am not sure how far he will get before a > > student would need to start their project. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Andrew > > > Yes. We certainly need to get blocks ported over to the chip to do > anything. From a GNU Radio standpoint as a GSoC project, that's not > particularly interesting to us, just work that has to be done. What > we're interested in as a project is improving our understanding of > both many-core processors as well as the use of coprocessors for > signal processing/SDR work. > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > > > -- > Bob McGwier > Owner and Technical Director, Allied Communication, LLC > Professor Virginia Tech > Senior Member IEEE, Facebook: N4HYBob, ARS: N4HY > Faculty Advisor Virginia Tech Amateur Radio Assn. (K4KDJ) > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
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